UI Template System for Multi-Device Interface Configuration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Content management systems face challenges in efficiently configuring and updating user interfaces across various devices with different display sizes, resolutions, and specifications, leading to a cumbersome and time-consuming process that affects user experience and requires significant computing resources.
Innovation Solution
An operator console system that allows designers to create a common design template, automatically generating different layouts for various devices based on input parameters and device attributes, enabling dynamic editing, previewing, and scheduling of user interface designs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If manual configuration methods are used for each device type, then customization for specific devices is possible, but the process becomes cumbersome and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The user interface configuration is segmented into reusable components that can be independently defined and then automatically assembled for different device types. This allows the system to maintain device-specific customization while reducing manual configuration time through automated component assembly.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses parameter-based device profiles that automatically adjust UI configuration based on device attributes. By changing parameters rather than manually reconfiguring entire interfaces, the system achieves device-specific adaptation efficiently without time-consuming manual processes.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate interface designs are created for different devices, then device-specific optimization is achieved, but the complexity of managing multiple designs increases
Solution Approach 1:
A single unified interface design system serves multiple device types through automated adaptation. The system defines one master interface configuration that can be automatically transformed and deployed across various device types, eliminating the need to manage multiple separate designs while maintaining device optimization.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates device-specific interface instances by copying and adapting from a master template. This copying mechanism allows efficient replication of interface designs across devices with automatic adjustments for device-specific attributes, reducing management complexity while maintaining optimization.
3Adaptability or versatility
If traditional interface updating methods are used, then changes can be made to specific devices, but the process requires significant computing resources
Solution Approach 1:
Interface configurations are pre-compiled into device-specific profiles during offline processing. This preliminary action allows the system to prepare optimized interface packages in advance, reducing real-time computing resource consumption when deploying updates to devices while maintaining full update capability.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, methods, and computer readable media are described for modifying or updating a user interface. In some examples, systems, methods, and computer readable media include receiving, via an operator console on an operator system, one or more inputs for a template for a user interface, generating, based on the one or more inputs, the template for the user interface, and generating, based on the template, a plurality of designs for the user interface, wherein each design in the plurality of designs is associated with an interface profile.